Not even Danes will recognize these numbers the way I wrote them in English, but I was being an extreme pronunciation nazi and writing them almost exactly like they’re said in Danish.

The thing that really confuse our Northern neighbors is that with a number like 52 we don’t say “fifty two” but “two and fifty” which sounds like “two fifty”. And our word for fifty sounds like “half sixty” and 90 sounds like “half fives” and it just goes on like that.

You are allowed to be confused. And Norway had to put up with that for 300 years.

@TheDanishDude:
Yup, we use the same system.
For 2 Digit numbers, lets use 23 as a example:
three and twenty
Dreiundzwanzig

Strangely this only applies to 2-digit numbers - in 3 digit numbers the first digit comes first, then the third digit and finally the secound digit (again, just like in Denmark)
i.e.: 547
Fivehundred seven and fourty
Fünfhundert sieben und vierzig

I was really surprised that we aren't the only ones using this silly system. To me its about as nonsensical and counter-intuitive as the imperal measuring system.

The Danish number system go by "snes" or "twenties". One "snes" is 20. Three "snes", or "tres", is 60. Four snes or "fjers" is 80 and five snes (fems) is 100. "Halv" or "Half" is a half snes (10). So "halv fems" would be 90, since it's half a snes off fems (100). Whoo, numbers!